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Gaming
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Steam Best Feature for Those with Good Internet Connection? Remote Play
Want to play a Steam game with a friend on Steam/PC without them having to buy it? Totally legit and supported by many developers, but not available on every single game, unfortunately. On Sunday's, PGM Member Gamer_Nix…
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New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 4/8 – 4/14/2024
It’s that time of the week again to check for noteworthy game releases for PC/Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch via Metacritic . We also discuss these games live on the High Noon with Hollywood Polo stream at…
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Helldivers 2: Manufacturing Consent & Behavioral Modification or Game Theory with Bob
As many of you know I have been avidly playing Helldivers 2 ( Steam , $39.99). But I’ve been playing mostly in the dark, that is I haven’t until very recently looked up much information about the game. I was told, ‘hey…
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New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 4/1 – 4/7/2024
It's that time of the week again to check for noteworthy game releases for PC/Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch via Metacritic . We also discuss these games live on the High Noon with Hollywood Polo stream at…
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Instead of Eggs, Play Find Hidden Cats in Arcades for FREE - Happy Easter 2024 from PlayGamesMore!
Happy Easter 2024 from PGM! Here's a bonus game to play for FREE on Steam/PC that has thousands of overwhelmingly positive reviews. Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline…
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March 31 - April 2, 2024 - American Crossword Puzzle Week
It's time to celebrate and play crossword puzzles! Crossword puzzles are easily one of the most popular word games in the world. It only took a few centuries from the development of the English language to form this new…
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New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 3/25 – 3/31/2024
It's that time of the week again to check for noteworthy game releases for PC/Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch via Metacritic . We also discuss these games live on the High Noon with Hollywood Polo stream at…
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New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 3/18 - 3/24/2024
It's that time of the week again to check for noteworthy game releases for PC/Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch via Metacritic . We also discuss these games live on the High Noon with Hollywood Polo stream at…
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New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 3/11 - 3/17/2024
It's that time of the week again to check for noteworthy game releases for PC/Steam, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch via Metacritic . We also discuss these games live on the High Noon with Hollywood Polo stream at…
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Playdate the Portable Gaming Device with BW Screen and Crank for $199
There are so many different mini consoles, portables and other game hardware these days that it's pretty much impossible for one gamer to keep up with all of them, much less play them. I remember the Playdate for the…
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New This Week Game Releases (NTWIG) 3/4 - 3/10/2024
Tuesdays at noon PST (GMT-8) on the High Noon with Hollywood Polo show and here we're going to briefly summarize and cover the week's new game releases, courtesy of Metacritic. Here's this week's releases running from…
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Study with Absurdly Small Sample Size: Most Americans Play Games at Work
I've been saying for years that studies can be done to prove anything, especially when the sample size is very small. And tiny, tiny, tiny is the following study which finds 64% of Americans are playing games at work.…
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OPINION: Google's AI Genie Creating Faux 2D Platformer Games Likely Another Idea They Give Up on Too Soon
Bonus article tonight because my newsreader is blowing up on Google's new AI Genie. There is no link to the Genie AI service yet (not public yet), but you can google "Google Genie " if you want to get lost in the rabbit…
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Play Guess the Game-related Word #1
You get five guesses to correctly identify the Game Mascot name below. It is five characters and in the style of Wordle ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle ), if you've ever played that popular game. You can play…
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Could Fortnite Shopping Mall and Arcade with Disney IP be Under Construction? Disney Pays $1.5 Billion For Equity Stake in Epic Games
Disney has its eye on Epic's Fortnite. Or rather getting their IP inside Fortnite, with billion+ dollar equity investment in Epic. The House of Mouse wants into Fortnite, in a billion ways. In addition to being a…
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Was Skull Island: Rise of Kong truly one of the worst games of 2023?
Sometimes curiosity with opinions from many, many others on games can create interest. Strange as that sounds, it's true. ( Ed. disturbing sidenote: this article was written before another new game was released on…
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Yes, it plays DOOM! Retrogaming Watch $179 Kickstarter
As mentioned in the recent TMNT RPG (see Kickstarter for Re-Release of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1985 RPG Meets Goal 4 Hours After Release ) I was wavering on joining that Kickstarter, but never did. Now comes this…
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Noteworthy Jan/Feb 2024 Game Releases for Arcade Gamers
With New Year's around the corner, literally, this is the time many gaming pubs are publishing comprehensive lists of upcoming 2024 game releases like this one: Video Game Release Dates 2024 (thegamer.com) that they…
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Play and Solve Rise of the AI Robots Jigsaw Puzzle
Here's a jigsaw puzzle that you can play by scrambling and solve right inside this post. How fast can you complete it? Share your best completion time in the comments. There are 36 pieces.
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Generative AI may greatly expand NPC character interactions within next five years
We've been playing around with AI on our Twitch, through the use of clones, AI-created voices based on real audio clips using Eleven Labs generative AI ( https://elevenlabs.io/ ). Fun stuff, and if you feed with diverse…
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2024 Resolution: Play ALL My Unplayed PC Games + How To Create Dynamic Unplayed Steam Collection
When it comes to New Year's Resolutions, the first step is to actually make a resolution. Mine for 2024 is pretty straightforward: just play every unplayed PC game. Not just Steam, btw, but GOG, Amazon Prime Gaming,…
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REVIEW: Noobly App - Find Gamer Friends, Well, Maybe, Sorta
Noobly ( https://noobly.xyz/ ) is an app to find other gamers. My limited experience trying to use it, however, I wasn't having much success. Here comes a bunch of pics from the install and first run. First, Android…
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My 2023 Favorite Gaming-related Hardware Purchase Is ...
Since 2020, I've been listing my favorite gaming-related hardware purchase. Here's what I've chosen so far to date: 2020 - Atgames Legends Ultimate 1.1 - still play this fairly regularly I don't care so much for the…
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Starfield Developer gets Defensive with Players, and yes, it is Offensive
We don't do this with every new game at PGM, but Starfield got its own Discord discussion thread, multiple posts here (see: Where/When/If You Will Be Playing Starfield Launching Wednesday 9/6/2023? and Uh Oh, Some…
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Jirard The Completionist Character Removed from Sea of Stars game over Charity Controversy
Please note the smiling, bearded character above, based on a real gamer, because he's now been completely removed from the game, Sea of Stars. Patched completely out of existence. Why? You haven't heard? Am not aware of…
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Epic Games Store Admits After 5 Years Still Unprofitable
Straight from the cold shores of the Captain Obvious beach comes ... If you were saying, "It must be all those free games" that makes Epic Games Store ( https://store.epicgames.com/ ) at least partly responsible for…
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16' Alienware Keyboard and Giant Mouse Used By DOTA Team
The spacebar weighs almost 20 pounds?! By the time this is published here it will be older news, but still thought this was cool and wanted to pass along. lol, good old Alienware. It takes their passion to do this…
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30 Greatest Fighting Games of All Time - Ranked by GameInformer
How many of these 30 greatest fighting games -- according to Gameinformer ( https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/04/25/the-30-greatest-fighting-games-of-all-time ) -- have you played? 30. INJUSTICE 2 Platform: PS4 • Xbox…
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Remembering Jerry Lawson, Father of the Videogame Cartridge and the Fairchild F
Game cartridges were all the rage in the late 70s through the 90s until the CD took over, though Nintendo somewhat stubbornly has hung onto the technology in some form or other, up to the Nintendo Switch that uses SD…
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OP-ED - Kinda Wish Social Media Was Dead, But Gamers Can Still Embrace Maybe, Somehow
Ed. this article has been pushed forward in publishing several times, because not sure the tone quite fits. Have marked as an op-ed, ultimately. That Insider headline might seem hyperbole, overblown, but is it? Let's…
